of america. now tonight isreali soldiers are on the ground in gaza battling hamas, other units are clashing with hezbollah and lebanon. hundreds of others are being held hostage underground in gaza, a network of 300 miles of underground terror tunnels to kill isrealis and take them hostage that is the war hamas has been waging against israel now going on for decades, now is the time for i real to win this war. we have u.s. soldiers in iraq and syria, they come under attack from iranian pox is around the region. we have two powerful strike groups in the mediterranean sea not far from israel. keep in mind, this is your state of the world under your president joe biden. and another massive war still raging close by with hundreds of thousands dead in ukraine and millions displaced and joe wants to face a proxy war with russia and not causing europe to pay their fair share. back home, china is buying up thousands of acres of farmland and ranch land in country and u.s. military ins
benjamin netanyahu plowing ahead with the war on hamas saying know to calls for a cease-fire. tanks drive deeper into gaza. a widening ground incursion that stops short of a full-scale ground war. the prime minister also announcing that one more hostage has been freed from hamas. a 19-year-old female soldier rescued in an overnight ground operation. meantime attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east continue to rise now totaling 24. that despite attempts at the biden administration to send a message by striking iran lymph facilities in syria last week. u.s. college campuses also a battleground of sorts, a war of words in most cases. violence did break out during some competing demonstrations and police are investigating online threats made to jewish students at cornell university. let s get to our chief international correspondent steve harrigan live in northern israel with more on this. steve? reporter: over the past 24 hours we have seen multiple rocket attacks across nor
people are getting frustrated. they re getting hungry as the siege, the three week long siege, continues. our other main story matthew perry one of the stars of the hit tv show friends is found dead at his home in los angeles. hello and welcome. i m maryam moshiri. more now from the gaza strip, where clashes have been reported between hamas fighters and israeli troops. israeli media say the country s forces engaged several hamas gunmen who emerged from a tunnel, killing some of them. hamas armed wing said it had attacked israeli armoured vehicles, killing their occupants. there are thousands of people displaced and living in tents in gaza. our special correspondent fergal keane is injerusalem and he has been speaking to some of those trapped in gaza a warning his piece contains distressing images. in the bombed districts of gaza, it seems as if the world is broken. a trauma shared across generations. my daughter, my daughter, a voice calls out. screaming and shouti
await a verdict in a federal case alleging president biden s son lied about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. that hour went by quick. bill: it sure did. good morning, dana. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. hunter biden is no longer in court. he will have to be there for a verdict. prosecutors say hunter biden knew he was addicted to drugs and the evidence shows that. the defense suggesting to the jury the evidence is circumstantial insisting the government has failed to prove its case against hunter biden beyond a reasonable doubt. dana: judge jeanine pirro joins us in a moment. first rich edson is live at the courthouse in wilmington. we re deliberating now? they are, dana. they started at 9:06 this morning when the judge called them back into the courtroom. she talked to them and asked them whether they had any conversations or read anything about the case overnight. they indicated the
it s noon eastern. i m ana cabrera in for andrea mitchell. breaking news from the hunter biden trial. the jury in the hunter biden felony gun trial has reached a guilty verdict on all three counts after nearly three hours of deliberations. this is the first trial of a child of a sitting president in u.s. history. president biden s son now facing potential jail time. he has no prior criminal history. he did not commit a crime with a gun, which prosecutors say he purchased illegally when he allegedly lied about not being an addict. notably, four members of the jury have close friends or family who have struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. again, unanimous guilty verdict. joining us now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. we just got a statement from president biden. fill us in. reporter: that s right. president biden has reiterated some of what he said during the trial. i want to read the statement. as i said last week, i am the president, but also